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Author International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment (10th : 2020 : Online)

Title Waste Management and the Environment X / editors, Juan Casares, Hideaki Itoh, Massimiliano Lega
Published Southampton ; Boston : WIT Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Series WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment ; volume 247, 2020
WIT transactions on ecology and the environment ; v. 247.
Contents Cover -- Waste Management and the Environment X -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Biodegradable plastics fragmentation in soil and water: Lessons learnt and comparative assessment with hydro-biodegradables -- Impact of gross domestic product change on municipal solid waste generation in Maputo, Mozambique -- Waste value potential analysis of municipal solid waste produced in the peri-urban area of Zhaoquanying, China -- Solid waste management at an international full-marathon running event in southern Thailand
Improving the attitude and reaction towards municipal solid waste management in Mozamb -- Proposal for social indicators to improve municipal solid waste management: A Peruvian case study -- Composting strategy for developing cities: A case study of Beira, Mozambique -- Effect of surcharge height and preloading time on long-term settlement of closed landfills: A numerical analysis -- Compounding and processing hydro-biodegradable plastic films for plastic waste reduction. Part I: Processing conditions and environmental performance against plastic solid waste
Compounding and processing hydro-biodegradable plastic films for plastic waste reduction. Part II: Thermal and chemical printing of virgin/waste polymeric blends -- Study of commercial thermoplastic biodegradable polyester resin as a solid waste mitigation route using ASTM D 5988-18 -- Potential integrated smart waste segregation for all stakeholders -- Dry olive pomace gasification to obtain electrical energy in a downdraft gasifier -- In-situ backfilling experiment of the small scale drift by spray method in Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory, Japan
Hazardous waste management in Costa Rica: An academic-small company collaboration -- Disposal or treatment: Future considerations for solid waste from the construction and demolition industry -- Development of an analytical reaction kinetics mathematical model based on thermogravimetric data for reclaimed plastic waste from active landfills -- Development of efficacy assessment procedure for disaster debris management in municipal governments in Japan -- Author index
Summary Waste Management is one of the key problems of modern society due to the ever-expanding volume and complexity of discarded domestic and industrial waste. Covering various areas under the topic of Waste management, this volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 13, 2021)
Subject Refuse and refuse disposal -- Congresses
Refuse and refuse disposal
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Casares, J. (Juan J.), editor.
Itoh, H
Lega, M
ISBN 1784664065
9781784664060